[Dirvish] Filesystems for big partitions

2015-10-05 Thread Güder , Christian
Dear all, We are using Dirvish since a long time to backup numerous Linux applications and NAS servers - and despite development is not that active anymore, it's still doing a good job. We're about to expand our backup servers - this time using 6TB disks. This will lead to filesystems of theo

Re: [Dirvish] Other file systems

2017-05-08 Thread Güder , Christian
Dear Rolf, As long as the filesystem supports hardlinks, you should be fine. Nowadays distributions often use ext4 as standard. In the past, we run dirvish on file systems up to a size of ~25 TB reliably with XFS - altough for file systems bigger than that (currently more than >250 TB in on

Re: [Dirvish] Other file systems

2017-05-08 Thread Güder , Christian
+1 For common applications/services we are usually sticking to what the operating system (installer) is proposing (like in your case btrfs/xfs. Using ext4 for the backup discs is fine as well. Kind regards, Christian From: dirvish-boun...@dirvish.org on b

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish Mailinglist and Website - GitHub Project

2018-05-03 Thread Güder , Christian
Please also add my user to the GitHub repository so I can help out as well: chrigeler Cheers -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: dirvish-boun...@dirvish.org Im Auftrag von Andreas Kotes Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2018 12:17 An: dirvish@dirvish.org Betreff: Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish Mailingli